Places Caytastrophy Wants to Go

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.